Quickview for YouTube

Allows you to quickly view videos from your subscriptions feed page

What is Quickview for YouTube?

Quickview for YouTube is a time-saving and user-friendly Chrome extension designed to enhance your YouTube browsing experience. It allows users to hover over thumbnails in the subscription feed and instantly view videos, eliminating the need to navigate away from the page. This versatile extension even works on side thumbnails on the video page. It's designed to adapt to YouTube updates and changes while offering users customization options like setting preferred hover time and playback rate.

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Extension stats

By: ngzhian

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Users: 597 ▼ -3

Rating: 4.03 (33)

Version: 2.5.0 (Last updated: 2018-09-10)

Creation date: 2018-09-09

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

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Size: 80.63K

Email: ng*****@gmail.com

Ranking

# 38433 ▼ 230

Other rankings

#1849 in Just for Fun ▲ 4 #123 in subscriptions keyword 30 ▼ 1 #146 in hover keyword 10 ▲ 2

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Extension summary

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Watch videos without leaving your YouTube subscriptions feed page, and possibly without ever clicking.

Hover over thumbnails in your feed page to view that video. How about thumbnails at the side of a video page? That works too!

Q: What's better than a nice subscriptions feed page that you can scroll forever? A: A page where you can scroll forever AND watch videos.

P.S. This is open-source at https://github.com/ngzhian/quickview

-LATEST CHANGES- 2.5.0 works on more pages now (homepage, channel page, video page) 2.4.0 Works with new YouTube design now! 2.3.0

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Works great for enhancing the YouTube experience
Very efficient and fun to use, saves a lot of time
Good support with quick responses to issues
Convenient and a daily use for many

Cons

Hover timer does not work as intended
Delay option does not delay the video preview as expected
Needs more customization options
Does not work with inline preview enabled
Heavy on resources when opening videos

Most mentioned

Needs more options and customization
Hover timer and delay options are ineffective
Works great but has some annoying default behaviors
Good support for reported issues

Recent reviews

Needs a lot of work and more options; like... - ability to hide the side info - resize the video popup - get the hover timer to work - choose hover or a click option -etc... You know, the kind of options that would be a bit obvious to the average developer.